The Wind in the Willows, chapter VII, part 1: The Piper at the Gates of Dawn (Portly is missing), sentence 14

When Otter walked out with the Rat, he said he wanted some air and to stretch his legs — but the Rat could see he was really very nervous.

Who acts: Otter, Portly, Rat · What happens: walk out, say, want, stretch, see, be · To what, where: air, legs · Speech: someone speaks here

This is a sentence of the lesson «The Wind in the Willows, chapter VII, part 1: The Piper at the Gates of Dawn (Portly is missing)» of the books course of Mova's primary school. The page gives its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause: who acts (Otter, Portly, Rat), what happens, when and where, as Mova's frames read it from the tree.

The tree

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	When	when	SCONJ	_	3 walked	mark
2	Otter	Otter	PROPN	Number=Sing	3 walked	nsubj
3	walked	walk	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	10 said	advcl
4	out	out	ADV	_	3 walked	advmod
5	with	with	ADP	_	7 Rat	case
6	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	7 Rat	det
7	Rat	Rat	PROPN	Number=Sing	3 walked	obl
8	,	,	PUNCT	_	3 walked	punct
9	he	he	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	10 said	nsubj
10	said	say	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	root	root
11	he	he	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	12 wanted	nsubj
12	wanted	want	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	10 said	ccomp
13	some	some	DET	PronType=Ind	14 air	det
14	air	air	NOUN	Number=Sing	12 wanted	obj
15	and	and	CCONJ	_	17 stretch	cc
16	to	to	PART	_	17 stretch	mark
17	stretch	stretch	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	12 wanted	conj
18	his	his	PRON	Case=Gen Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs	19 legs	nmod:poss
19	legs	leg	NOUN	Number=Plur	17 stretch	obj
20	—	-	PUNCT	_	25 see	punct
21	but	but	CCONJ	_	25 see	cc
22	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	23 Rat	det
23	Rat	Rat	PROPN	Number=Sing	25 see	nsubj
24	could	could	AUX	VerbForm=Fin	25 see	aux
25	see	see	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	10 said	conj
26	he	he	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	30 nervous	nsubj
27	was	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	30 nervous	cop
28	really	really	ADV	_	30 nervous	advmod
29	very	very	ADV	_	30 nervous	advmod
30	nervous	nervous	ADJ	Degree=Pos	25 see	ccomp
31	.	.	PUNCT	_	10 said	punct

Pragmatics

No stored speech act for this sentence.

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	other	roles by
1	walk out	past	Otter		with the Rat; out property	vn resign-10.11 «NP V»: agent=Agent
2	say speech: assert	past	Portly			vn say-37.7-1-1 «NP V that S»: agent=Agent clause=Topic
3	want	past	Portly	some air		vn want-32.1-1-1 «NP V NP ADV»: agent=Pivot air=Theme
4	stretch	to-infinitive	Portly not said here	Portly's legs		vn bend-45.2 «NP V NP.patient»: agent=Agent leg=Patient
5	see	could	the Rat			vn comprehend-87.2-1-1 «NP V»: agent=Experiencer
6	is	past	Portly		nervous property	tree rules

One row per clause the reader finds. «not said here»: a role filled from the clause above. «roles by»: a VerbNet class and frame when one fits the verb, else the reader's rules on the tree.

Licence: CC BY-SA 4.0, as the whole of Mova corpus 0.4, of which this treebank (the agreed school, mova-school-agreed-en.conllu) is part. The lessons were written for Mova's primary school. Sentence school:books:049-willows-ch7-part1-portly-is-missing.lesson:14.

The tree: Mova annot: Rust (en) → Haiku 5.5 (medium, Batches API) patches; gates UD 2.18; agreed by treeagree rules (Stanza, Trankit, spaCy trf): R5-strong ×1, R8-pos-agree ×1. The frames are read from the tree by Mova's frames reader (prag) when this page is built, the lesson read in order, so a pronoun may be resolved from an earlier sentence.

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